Personal Statement:

I work on religion and culture in Tudor-Stuart England, specifically the intersection of official religious policy and local enforcement and (re)interpretation thereof. My current research looks at the dynamics of religious identity formation during the Tudor Reformations through personal and corporate acts of iconoclasm and iconophilia in English parish churches.

My teaching situates the history of early modern Britain within the broader European context of political and religious processes born of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations, as well as tracking the development of world historical processes from the early modern period to the present.

Dissertation Title:

“The Temple Well Purged or the Spoil of Traditional Religion? Iconoclasm, Iconophilia, and Negotiating Religious Change at the Local Level during the Tudor Reformations, 1530–1553.”

Selected Publications:

WORKS IN PROGRESS

“Conflict and Compromise in Long Melford: Strategies of Conformity and Resistance in aSuffolk Parish, 1547–1553.” Article in preparation for submission to a scholarly journal.

“Electing Alexander… or Not? The Development and Reception of a Reacting to the PastRole-Immersion Game Based on the Conclave of 1492.” Chapter in preparation for The Fortunes of the Borgia Family, an edited volume under contract with Routledge.

PUBLICATIONS

“Churchwardens in early Tudor England: On the Edge of Sacred and Secular.” Selected Proceedings from “On the Edge,” March 2015. The Reading Medievalist, vol. 3, edited by H. Mahood (University of Reading, October 2016): 76-92.

“Making a Deal with the Devil? Parish Record Keeping and Strategies of Conformity during the early Tudor Reformation.” American Historical Association / American Catholic History Association, Chicago, IL, January 2019.

“The Parish Church as Borderland: Re-Conceptualizing the Performance and Contestation of Religious Identity in Tudor England.” Sixteenth Century Society & Conference, Milwaukee, WI, October 2017.

“Blessed are the Peacemakers? Negotiating Religious Change in East Anglia, 1547–53.” American Historical Association, Denver, CO, January 2017.

“Conflict and Compromise in an English Parish: Long Melford under Edward VI.” Sixteenth Century Society & Conference, Vancouver, BC, October 2015. (Carl S. Meyer Prize Winner)

“Churchwardens in early Tudor England: On the Edge of Sacred and Secular.” Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading, United Kingdom, March 2015.

“Iconoclasm and Iconolatry: Responses to Religious Change in Henrician East Anglia.” Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies. Riverside, CA, March 2014.

“Churchwardens and the Mediation of Religious Change under Edward VI.” History Graduate Student Symposium. California State University, Fresno, April 2013.

“Local Reception of Liturgical and Doctrinal Reform under Henry VIII: Evidence from Three Suffolk Parishes.” Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association. San Diego, CA, August 2012.

“Turning Action into Belief: The Significance of Changes Made to the Ritual Celebration of the Eucharist in England, 1534–1552.” Phi Alpha Theta Northwest Regional Meeting. Seattle University, April 2011.

Contact Us

Department of History
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9410